El Dorado 6, Fair Oaks 1 (League: 12-2, Overall: 27-7) - July 9 @ El Dorado High School
By Jerry Heinzer / Mountain Democrat staff writer
    Four pitchers combined on a seven-hitter, Aaron Conyers slugged two home runs and Matt Foat added another as the host El Dorado Post 119 Senior Legion baseball team upended Fair Oaks 6-1 Wednesday night.
    Both teams came in having played multiple games over the Fourth of July weekend and with the postseason just around the corner, they spread the innings amongst their respective pitching staffs. Matt Evanoff, Travis Bravo, Conyers and Robert Vaughn all took turns on the mound for El Dorado.
    Post 119 improved to 13-0 at home and wraps up the season with doubleheaders, hosting Auburn tomorrow and Chico on Sunday.
    El Dorado wasted little time in getting on the scoreboard. Max Hemington drew a lead-off walk to open the bottom of the first and trotted around the bases ahead of Conyers, who lifted his first homer well beyond the right-field  fence.
    With two out, his brother Austin belted the first of his three doubles on the evening but was left stranded.
    Post 119 came right back in the second with Riley Heinzer’s double. Jordan Kiesz was hit by pitch but Fair Oaks pitcher Josh Glaser retired the next three to keep the deficit at two runs.
    Evanoff (three innings, three hits, one strikeout) started and cruised through the first inning but was touched for a run in the second. Fair Oaks bunched three hits and Ben Schwefel’s sacrifice fly to make it a 2-1 game.
    Foat answered with his round-tripper in the third and he and Austin doubled in the fifth to give El Dorado a 4-1 advantage.
    Bravo handled the fourth, fifth and sixth innings and despite several walks, held Fair Oaks, a team that draws primarily from Bella Vista and Casa Roble, hitless.
    He was aided by Foat’s diving stop at short, one of four gems El Dorado’s defense turned in.
    Derek O’dell reached on an error in the sixth and an out later, Aaron ripped a pitch over the center-field fence to complete the scoring. On the mound, Aaron got out of a seventh-inning jam when left-fielder Ryan Lombardi disappeared into the smoke before hauling in a two-out drive at the fence.
    Fair Oaks put a runner on in the eighth before Aaron (four strikeouts) fanned the last two. Behind Vaughn in the ninth, second baseman Justin McPeters smothered a ball up the middle and fired to first for the out and the game ended as Aaron scooped up Charlie Robertson’s single in right and gunned down Ryan Dettman at the plate. Dettman didn’t even attempt to slide around catcher Kyle Sanders, who applied the chest-high tag.
    Game notes: Wednesday’s rosters for both teams was chalk full of all league players, All Metro picks and Optimist All Stars. Robertson and Fair Oaks pitcher Bryce Bandilla were also recent Major League Baseball draft picks. Robertson is headed to College World Series national champion Fresno State on a scholarship. Bandilla pitched the seventh and eighth innings and demonstrated his ability by striking out six of the seven batters he faced.

TEAM	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
FAIR OAKS	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	1
EL DORADO	2	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	6	8	0

Fair Oaks: Pitching - Glaser, Garber (4), Bandilla (7) and Schwefel, McCutchan (6). Top Hitters - Gutierez 2B.
El Dorado: Pitching - Evanoff, Bravo (4), Vaughn (9) and Heinzer. Top Hitters - Conyers 2 HR; Foat HR.